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    "id": 1431832,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga",
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    "content": "and Livestock Development should submit a report to the National Assembly within three months of adoption of this Report by the House, explaining the following: 1. The departure from what is interpreted as the President’s focus on subsidising maize flour prices through duty waivers to what the Ministry decided to do by paying off the millers to produce and sell the maize flour. 2. How the decision to implement the programme for a period of one month was arrived at. 3. Why the programme was implemented a month to the general elections. 4. The actions that the Ministry took after several prompts by Cereal Millers’ Association (CMA) on the maize and wheat situation in the country and globally, and the reasons for inaction. This is because there were quite a number of inactions. 5. Why a certain group of millers appeared to have been favoured in terms of payment compared to other millers. 6. Why the Ministry did not adopt the proposals made by the Attorney-General on the contract. 7. Why CMA was given preference over other millers with regard to the introductory engagements and meetings prior to implementation of the maize flour subsidy programme for Financial Year 2022/2023. 8. Why the Ministry prefers not to clear subsidy-related debts as pending bills that accrue interest from those processes. We note with concern that there is a pending bill for Financial Year 2017/2018 maize subsidy programme and another pending bill for Financial Year 2022/2023, among others. We also recommend that the Auditor-General conduct an audit of the Maize Flour Subsidy Programme for Financial Year 2022/2023 to ascertain whether there was prudent use of public resources and submit a report to the National Assembly within three months of the adoption of this Report by the House. In addition, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) should conduct investigations on the following: 1. Whether the Subsidy Programme achieved the intended objective. 2. Quality and quantity of the maize flour produced under the programme, the price of the flour and where it was sold. 3. If the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government submitted a report to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and Co-operatives on the delivery of subsidised maize flour to the last mile. 4. That the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) was paid Ksh100 million as monitoring and evaluation fee, but did not submit the report to the Committee on the market surveillance they made. An investigation should be conducted on whether NCPB conducted their role in the Subsidy Programme as expected, and how that money was used. 5. Investigate the milling companies as they were to establish whether the flour that was said to have been supplied under the Subsidy Programme was actually milled, and how much of it was milled. In its preliminary Report on the Maize Flour Subsidy Programme 2022/2023, the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock recommended that the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Development and Fisheries should proceed to pay the Grain Mill Owners’ Association (GMOA) their dues - a balance of around Ksh432 million they were owed. We The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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